Note - John (Mad Jack) Fuller is listed seperately
Publications
An Inventory of 1615 [of John Fuller, Woodplace and Tanners, Waldron], by Harry Storey, published August 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 7, article, pp.201-204) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library
An Inventory of 1615 [of John Fuller, Woodplace and Tanners, Waldron], by E. M. Callender, published November 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 8, reply, p.248) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library
The Fullers of Brightling Park, by Mary C. L. Salt, published 1966 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 104, article, pp.63-87) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2189] & The Keep [LIB/500325] & S.A.S. library
The Fullers of Brightling Park, Part 2, by Mary C. L. Salt, published 1968 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 106, article, pp.73-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2191] & The Keep [LIB/500323] & S.A.S. library
The Fullers of Brightling Park, Part 3, by Mary C. L. Salt, published 1969 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 107, article, pp.14-24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2192] & The Keep [LIB/500322] & S.A.S. library
The Fullers of Brightling Park, by Kenneth Dickins, published June 1976 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 5, article, pp.150-160) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
The De Bourbel & Fuller Families, by E. de Bourbel, published September 1976 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 6, article, pp.213-214) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Poor Old Rose, by Elizabeth Doff, published June 1978 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 5, article, pp.130-136) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:A description of the life of Rose Fuller (1708-1777), from Brightling to Jamaica and back.
The missing half of a letter by John Fuller on the iron mines in the county of Sussex, by Richard Saville, published 1979 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 16, article, pp.17-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558] Download PDF
A Fuller Trail, by Michael Barnard, published 1981 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502462]
The Fullers and Carron, by David Butler, published 1981 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 1, article, pp.24-31) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559] Download PDF
Abstract:After reading a number of articles concerning the Fullers and their ironmaking activities, a visit was made to the East Sussex Record Office to examine the Fuller Letter Book in their keeping.
The purpose of the visit was to find if any additional information was contained in the letters, also to ascertain what had occurred during the last years of gun founding at Heathfield. Among the letters written by Dr. Rose Fuller in 1773 some references were found relating to the Carron Company of Scotland and to the likelihood of new contracts between the Sussex gun founders and the Board of Ordnance.
The purpose of the visit was to find if any additional information was contained in the letters, also to ascertain what had occurred during the last years of gun founding at Heathfield. Among the letters written by Dr. Rose Fuller in 1773 some references were found relating to the Carron Company of Scotland and to the likelihood of new contracts between the Sussex gun founders and the Board of Ordnance.
Income and Production at Heathfield Ironworks 1693-1788, by Richard Saville, published 1982 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 2, article, pp.36-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559] Download PDF
This analysis covers several aspects of the operation of Heathfield blast furnace and gun-boring plant from 1693 to 1788.1 It is based on papers in the Fuller family collection, lately held by the Sussex Archaeological Society and the East Sussex Record Office and now housed together in the record office in Pelham House, Lewes. Several of the papers have only recently been discovered and are discussed here for the first time. The family records have been supplemented by the details of payments for iron ordnance and shot purchased by the Board of Ordnance, the records of which are kept in the Public Record Office at Kew and Chancery Lane, London.
Captain A. W. F. Fuller, 1882-1961, and the Fuller collection in the West Sussex Record Office, by Timothy J. McCann, published January 1983 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 24, article, p.3) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/24] & The Keep [LIB/500480]
A Family History visit to Sussex in 1891, by Marie Stapley, published December 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.101-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The traveller was James Fuller (b.1845) son of James Fuller and his wife Jane Pettit who had married in 1844
The Fullers' progress: a study of a remarkable Sussex Family : 16th-19th centuries., by Alec Parks, published 1988 (24 pp., Heathfield: Local History Section of Heathfield and Waldron Community Association) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Fuller Letters, 1728-1755, by David Crossley and Richard Saville, published 29 April 1991 (vol. 76, 345 pp., Sussex Record Society, ISBN-10: 0854450378 & ISBN-13: 9780854450374) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13074][Lib 11098] & The Keep [LIB/500453][Lib/507859] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
Abstract:"I am afraid you do not keep copyes of your letters; if you do not it will be impossible to keep up a Regular Correspondence. And you being entrusted with so many People's Business you ought to do so" wrote John Fuller of Brightling to his son, Dr. Rose Fuller of Jamaica in 1734.
This letter book is one of the most important collections of business and social correspondence from a leading eighteenth century county family to be published in recent years, It records the rise to wealth and influence of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Originally from humble beginnings in an inhospitable and forested part of the Weald of Sussex, they had in the eighteenth century - diversified into slave owning in Jamaica, expanded their iron founding and gun-casting in the Weald and greatly enlarged their Sussex estates, and by mid-century held significant holdings in London stocks. The letters explain how these business interests worked, and give the reader unique insights into the life of an eighteenth century landowner.
The letters also contain the only major surviving record of the charcoal iron industry to include substantial comment on the technical problems, how furnaces were operated, how guns were cast, and where they were sold. The Fullers were one of the major gun producers for the Navy and the Army at this time; their products were in demand as far away as Sardinia and the Austro-Hungarian - Empire.
There is much information on Wealden weather and road conditions, on the difficulty of running a Jamaica sugar plantation, and the problems of involvement in the London sugar-refining trade. There is extensive comment on Wealden agriculture, based as it was on one of the more intractable soils in southern England, on how tenants were dealt with, and the crops they grew. As befitting a county family there is material on political affairs - the Fullers were Tories - on social and educational questions and the arrangements made for sons to go into business. Of interest to all who want to know more about Sussex history, this volume will also stand on its own as an important contribution to our knowledge of gun casting and ironworking, Wealden agriculture, the Jamaica sugar trade, and how eighteenth century landowners organised their estates.
Review in Wealden Iron Research Group: Bulletin 11, 1991:This letter book is one of the most important collections of business and social correspondence from a leading eighteenth century county family to be published in recent years, It records the rise to wealth and influence of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Originally from humble beginnings in an inhospitable and forested part of the Weald of Sussex, they had in the eighteenth century - diversified into slave owning in Jamaica, expanded their iron founding and gun-casting in the Weald and greatly enlarged their Sussex estates, and by mid-century held significant holdings in London stocks. The letters explain how these business interests worked, and give the reader unique insights into the life of an eighteenth century landowner.
The letters also contain the only major surviving record of the charcoal iron industry to include substantial comment on the technical problems, how furnaces were operated, how guns were cast, and where they were sold. The Fullers were one of the major gun producers for the Navy and the Army at this time; their products were in demand as far away as Sardinia and the Austro-Hungarian - Empire.
There is much information on Wealden weather and road conditions, on the difficulty of running a Jamaica sugar plantation, and the problems of involvement in the London sugar-refining trade. There is extensive comment on Wealden agriculture, based as it was on one of the more intractable soils in southern England, on how tenants were dealt with, and the crops they grew. As befitting a county family there is material on political affairs - the Fullers were Tories - on social and educational questions and the arrangements made for sons to go into business. Of interest to all who want to know more about Sussex history, this volume will also stand on its own as an important contribution to our knowledge of gun casting and ironworking, Wealden agriculture, the Jamaica sugar trade, and how eighteenth century landowners organised their estates.
The Letterbook of the Fuller family is the single most important document relating to the Wealden iron industry in the eighteenth century. In it is correspondence on all aspects of the Fullers' business in casting; supply of raw materials, technical aspects of gunfounding, letters to agents, purchasers and other ironfounders. In addition, though of less relevance to the study of the Wealden iron industry, are the other subjects covered by this volume, namely the management of the family's estates in Sussex and in Jamaica. Also there is much family correspondence, and letters which give insights into the political scene in Sussex during the first half of the eighteenth century; the Fullers were Tories although, towards the middle of the century, economic expediency made their views less extreme.
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This excellent volume deserves to find a home on the bookshelf of any serious student of the Wealden iron industry, and all who want to partake of a unique view of eighteenth century life. It is a pity that the opportunity was not taken, however, to complete the picture, at least as far as the iron industry was concerned, with the publication of the letters which form part of the Fuller papers but which were written after the end of the Letterbook.
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This excellent volume deserves to find a home on the bookshelf of any serious student of the Wealden iron industry, and all who want to partake of a unique view of eighteenth century life. It is a pity that the opportunity was not taken, however, to complete the picture, at least as far as the iron industry was concerned, with the publication of the letters which form part of the Fuller papers but which were written after the end of the Letterbook.
Who was Great-great-great-granny Fuller? Proving her identity, by J. R. Thomas, published June 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 6, article, pp.225-227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Caleb Fuller married Margaret Hicks in 1666 at Eastbourne. Their descendants lived in and around Fletching. Article covers the years 1666 - 1933.
The Fuller Family of Brighton, by Michael Thompsett, published September 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 7, article, pp.241-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508822] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:James Fuller and Deborah Russell Ware married at Lewes St Thomas in 1814 and they had four sons: James, William, Henry and John. Henry married Sarah Ann Beck at Lewes, All Saints in 1849. The family moved to Brighton and had eight children. Henry was a tinpate worker and gas fitter of Crown Street, Brighton.
Have you seen Felix?, by Paul Latimer, published December 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 4, article, pp.184-185) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508837] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The Fuller ancestors of William Ford Miller (1848-1918) the fifth child of William Miller and Mary Ann née Fuller.
Mystery solved!, by Eric Monahan, published September 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 7, article, p.307) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508840] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The mystery of the death certificate of Mary Ann Fuller née Browning who died in 1927.
A trip to TNA from 'down under', by Therese Schier, published December 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 4, article, pp.190-193) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508971] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:About the time I discovered I had convict ancestors in my father's family tree, I read The Secret River and Searching for the Secret River by Australian novelist Kate Grenville. The books detail Kate Grenville's story about her convict ancestor, Solomon WISEMAN, who, after gaining his freedom, settled on the Hawkesbury River, becoming a wealthy man and after whom Wiseman's Ferry just north of Sydney, is named.
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Spurred on to find out more, I joined the Casino and District Family History Group where experienced members helped me to find information about Edward FULLER' s life in Australia.
My early research about the male convict in dad's family, Edward FULLER, began to show close parallels to the story of Solomon WISEMAN.
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Spurred on to find out more, I joined the Casino and District Family History Group where experienced members helped me to find information about Edward FULLER' s life in Australia.
My early research about the male convict in dad's family, Edward FULLER, began to show close parallels to the story of Solomon WISEMAN.
A few Fullers of Waldron and East Dean, by Janet Pennington, published June 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 2, article, pp.88-93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508843] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The photograph below is displayed in On Foot in Sussex, (A A Evans, Methuen. 1933), opposite page 154, captioned 'Old Mark Fuller: A Rural Worker, of East Dean, in his 85th year'.
The photograph is acknowledged by Evans to a Miss May BAXTER, though I have not been able to discover anything about her. She must have taken the photograph some 11 years before publication as FULLER died from bronchitis on 21 April 1925, aged 88, at The Green, East Dean. Evans uses the photograph to illustrate his chapter on 'The Rural Worker', though he makes no mention of him in the text.
Mark FULLER (c1837-1925), born at Little London, Waldron, was my great-great-uncle.
The photograph is acknowledged by Evans to a Miss May BAXTER, though I have not been able to discover anything about her. She must have taken the photograph some 11 years before publication as FULLER died from bronchitis on 21 April 1925, aged 88, at The Green, East Dean. Evans uses the photograph to illustrate his chapter on 'The Rural Worker', though he makes no mention of him in the text.
Mark FULLER (c1837-1925), born at Little London, Waldron, was my great-great-uncle.
From Dordogne to Ditchling, by Leslie Fuller, published September 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 3, article, pp.116-118) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508852] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:On a lazy hot summers day last June here in our home in France, finally relaxing after our daughter's wedding in our local village of Vendoire, a pause for thought. This was a time indeed to reflect on our family. What shall we do now my wife asked, as we both felt rather flat and empty after such a wonderful event?
Where is that old box that came from your cousin on the Isle of Wight containing your Uncle Frank Fuller's stuff, asked my wife Jacqueline?
I started a search of the garage and old packing boxes and eventually carne across a tatty cardboard box, sent to me almost 15 years ago, which I dusted down and brought it into the salon. On opening the box, it revealed photographs and this ignited and generated the first spark of discovery.
Where is that old box that came from your cousin on the Isle of Wight containing your Uncle Frank Fuller's stuff, asked my wife Jacqueline?
I started a search of the garage and old packing boxes and eventually carne across a tatty cardboard box, sent to me almost 15 years ago, which I dusted down and brought it into the salon. On opening the box, it revealed photographs and this ignited and generated the first spark of discovery.
The Fullers of Sussex - The Early Fuller Family of Cuckfield, by Kevin Fuller, published December 2016 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 4, article, pp.155-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/509472]